Here’s some news footage — caught on cell phone but edited by the news station — of freshman Seth Pace going through the North Carolina State University library on a mini-rampage — nude..

One student told reporters:

“All of a sudden I just saw a bunch of people running upstairs,” he said. “I went to about the eighth floor and there was this rumor going around that there was this guy stripped naked and just started throwing books everywhere.”

About the blogger

Alex Friedrich reports on higher education issues for MPR News. Among the stories he has covered: the fall of the Berlin Wall, aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis, 2003 Moscow suicide bombing and 2004 presidential elections in the Republic of Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a master’s in European political economy from the London School of Economics.